So we should have sided with the Allies in 1942? That’s nonsense

EARLIER this month I was asked to discuss Irish neutrality during the Second World War on Tom McGurk’s programme on 4FM.

My interest in the topic has stretched back over 40 years since 1968 when I wrote a seminar paper on wartime relations between the United States and Ireland while at university in Texas.

Prof Geoffrey Roberts of the UCC history department was on the programme trotting out the old fatuous argument that Ireland could and should have done much more for the Allies during the war.